Senior IT Project Manager - Shared Services

Schwan's Company - Minneapolis, MN

Full-time - Senior

Minneapolis, MN

Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods

About the position

The Senior IT Project Manager at Schwan's Company is responsible for overseeing the successful delivery of complex, high-risk information systems initiatives. This role involves managing enterprise-wide projects, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards. The position requires collaboration with various stakeholders and mentoring of junior project managers, making it a pivotal role in the organization.

Responsibilities

• Manages enterprise-wide projects, teams, and programs through phases of the project plan.
• Manages the budgets associated with the project, including capital, and manages all project deliverables, including customer satisfaction, quality to specification, technical achievement, schedule adherence and project cost budgets.
• Plans, directs, and coordinates all project activities to ensure project goals are accomplished on time, within budget and with optimum quality.
• Mentors Project Managers and Associate Project Managers on project management best practices and standards.
• Prepares project plans, task plans, task effort estimates, budgets, statements of work, overall work effort schedules, and task dependencies which includes definition, scope, resources, and schedule.
• Manages and coordinates the resources necessary to fulfill the project scope in a timely and cost-effective manner.
• Prioritizes projects and tasks to achieve department and company objectives.
• Ensures adequate and appropriate communication is maintained regarding all project status and priorities to stakeholders and executive management.
• Ensures compliance with all aspects of the project lifecycle standards, project specification, project scope management, company policies, and procedures.
• Identifies, tracks, and manages all project related issues, risks, change requests, and action items.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent IT experience and 8+ years' experience in enterprise leading projects of $1M or larger in size.
• Experience with SAP implementations, best practices, configurations, and customizations.
• Development of comprehensive project plans including scope, schedule, cost, and resource management.
• Extensive experience building bridges into the business to foster trust, collaboration, engagement, and adoption of new technology across an enterprise.
• Proven ability to lead and communicate effectively with cross-functional internal and external teams.
• Solid understanding of corporate-wide functions, specifically how technology supports business processes.
• Proficient in project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Scrum) and tools (e.g., MS Project, Azure DevOps).
• Proven ability to lead, develop and deploy high-impact projects in a dynamic environment.

Nice-to-haves

• PMP certified and/or Certified Scrum Master preferred
• S/4 implementation experience ideal